In a period where change is proving to be rapid and consequential, South Africa’s public and private sectors should go all out to collaboratively pursue every viable route to greater industrialisation. Wherever meaningful opportunities present themselves, strong steps must be taken to align infrastructure, investment and skills development.
It is good that an organisation as respected as the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (SAIMM) has already spotted that hydrogen has the potential to trigger new green iron, green steel, green chemicals and beneficiation industries built on South Africa’s mineral and renewable-energy advantages. “The real prize is not hydrogen — it’s industrialisation. The opportunity is significant if South Africa can align infrastructure, investment and skills development,” SAIMM president Gary Lane has pointed out on LinkedIn in response to Engineering News & Mining Weekly’s report about South Africa’s green hydrogen and power-to- X project development standard being set in place.
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